OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
2015 in Review: The Worst Films of the Year
- Excerpt: 2015’s worst offenders include ‘Jupiter Ascending’, ‘In Jackson Heights’, and ‘Mortdecai’!
Experimenter
Kenji Fujishima @ The House Next Door
- Excerpt: In praise of Peter Sarsgaard
Five Classic Christmas Moments
Kristen Lopez @ Journeys in Classic Film
Heaven Knows What
Kenji Fujishima @ The House Next Door
- Excerpt: In praise of Arielle Holmes
Inside Out
Kenji Fujishima @ The House Next Door
- Excerpt: In praise of the “abstract thought” sequence
Reeling Reviews’ Tops for 2015
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
Room
Kenji Fujishima @ The House Next Door
- Excerpt: In praise of Brie Larson
Awards Coverage
Golden Globes: Shots Fired in the Very Serious Fight Against “Category Fraud”
- Excerpt: This morning, a small battle was won in the single most inconsequential war in American culture.
Harvey Weinstein Is Dead Right: “Awards Season” Is Hurting Smart Films for Adults
- Excerpt: As studios and distributors have become more gun-shy and brand-reliant, the previous, loosely defined calendar parameters (giant blockbusters in the summer, prestige pics from September to December, everything that doesn’t fall into those categories between January and April) have become firmer, to the detriment of both audiences and distributors.
Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 3
- Excerpt: Looking at the winners and losers from Precursor Week 3
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 11-13, 2015
- Excerpt: Examining the Oscar chances for “In the Heart of the Sea,” “The Big Short” and “Boy and the World”
Interviews
Benjamin Walker – In the Heart of the Sea
Discovering Kristina: Mika Kaurismäki on The Girl King and a Swedish monarch who was ahead of her time
Fabulous filmmaking: Colin Rothbart takes on drag in Dressed as a Girl
The girl who would be king: Malin Buska on walking in Greta Garbo’s shoes
Ron Howard – In the Heart of the Sea
Steve Martino – Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie
Festivals: General Coverage
TIFF 2015 Docs Report: A Tale of Underdogs and Masters
- Excerpt: Doc highlights from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival include ‘Thru You Princess’, ‘Al Purdy Was Here’, ‘Sherpa’, ‘Being AP’ and more!
Festivals: Individual Reviews
The Demons
Her Composition
Nestor
The Sublet
Te Prometo Anarquía
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Mexican Feature Film Review
Television
The Librarians: And the Cost of Education
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
The Librarians: And the Hollow Men
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
The Librarians: And What Lies Beneath the Stones
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
The Ridiculous 6
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: What Sandler and his team have created here is not satire; it’s a badly structured series of unfunny episodic sketches that feel like they were written by a 12 year-old with ADD. As the Native American stereotypes, I wouldn’t worry so much about that because if you culled everyone who could find offense in this movie (whites, blacks, latinos, women) we’d be here all day – I guess you could call it an equal opportunity offender.
Very Semi-Serious
Sarah D Bunting @ Previously.TV
Essays
2015: The Year the Biopic Bubble Burst
- Excerpt: The problem isn’t just that these movies aren’t making money; most of them also aren’t very good. So if most of them stink and no one’s seeing them, why are so many biopics still getting made?
Four Awesome Star Wars Works to Devour Before (or After) You See The Force Awakens
Andrew Wyatt @ St. Louis Magazine
- Excerpt: So what non-film Star Wars works of fiction are worth perusing? For starters, here are four top-shelf slices of the freshly canonical “new EU” to sink your teeth into.
Tuesdays With Oscar: 1956
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: I don’t think anyone was truly expecting Around the World in 80 Days to win (Best Picture). My theory as to how it won is simple: every person who had a cameo (in it) voted for it, and that would have assured it sweeping to the winner’s circle.
Reviews of Short Films
Patchwork
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Animated Horror Short Film Review
Other Articles
Monday Memo: 2015 Winds Down, Best of Lists Stack Up
The Morning After: Dec. 14, 2015
- Excerpt: A short review of “Carol”
The Poppy-Fields Movie Couch Of Fame: Working Girl
Sarah D Bunting @ Tomato Nation
Star Wars FAQ with Mark Clark
Betty Jo Tucker @ Movie Addict Headquarters
- Excerpt: In this podcast, A.J. Hakari and Betty Jo Tucker talk with Mark Clark about his Star Wars FAQ book.